Classical Chinese Landscape Painting-the God's Favored One
Chinese mountain and water, and birds and flowers paintings can beautify souls and mould temperament. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in deep, and comforting and consoling us in sorrow. In the resent years, the similar works have attracted more and more attentions from collectors, not only drew by celebrated painters but also students fromFineArtsAcademy. The painting critics and media circle both think that Chinese magnificent and glorious landscapes paintings carry the young generation’s highest ideals and love towards our motherland. These works also reflect the clash and merging between the classical landscape paintings and the new artistic thoughts. It is well-known that Chinese landscape paintings had been riding the crest during the Yuan Dynasty of ancientChina. It was said that the Mongolian ruler made so much account of military power and belittled cultural works so that abolished the Examination System, which led to many desperate scholars to give expression of emotion to maintain and water to pursue lofty and independent personality. From their paintings, we can distill the meaning and feelings of the painters. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, all the generations of drawing theories are varied and complex, including point method, brushwork, ink technique and water skills. Theoretical circles hold the idea that on the base of Wei and Jin Dynasties’ paintings, landscape paintings gradually shaped its own style and played an important role in the decretive paintings among the ruling classes. Landscape depicting in religion mural paintings had emerged. On contemporary art circle, in order to meet the growing material, cultural and spiritual demands of people and reappear the glory history of the millenarianism, landscape paintings seem to be prominent and popular, which is gifted by the international friends “the God's favored one”.
